Southern Alignment points Octans

The northern Hemisphere has it easy one star " Polaris". In the Southern Hemisphere it is 4 faint stars. this is a crop and edit darker of the shot from Fiiday night next door 88 sec on the tracker to make the shot look like a night sky that our eyes see. remember the camera see more stars than we can by eye and the case out in the black of night.

Top lines start from Becrux from Southern Cross To globular cluster 47 Tuc

Middle line is the star Birdun just on the other side of milky way to the front of the SMC

Bottom line Top pointer star Hadar to the front of the SMC

From left to right X OctanIs, Polaris Australis, CG Octanis and T Octanis. the southern pole is left and to the top more of the Octan Pattern this will give you an idea how hard it is to see. How I find south for star trails Equilateral triangle on the LMC and the SMC.

I only was able to get this after down loading Sky Safari to my IPad this was not the first try this is the 5 th the last 4 not saved but start again. as I slowly moved across the sky to find the star patterns that matched sky Safari in the photo. This is why I believe the Green Laser Pointer will be the real answer to finding the stars. May be this will help some one else in the southern hemisphere make sense of this..

PiP one shows the 14mm shot of the sky this came from, now find the stars your eye cant see.

PIP 2 the only real way to see the southern polar point.